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Fucitol



Fucitol

Systematic (IUPAC) name
(2R,3S,4R,5S)-hexane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol
Identifiers
PubChem         445724
Chemical data
Formula C6H14O5 
Molar mass 166.172
Complete data

Fucitol, also known as L-fucitol, 6-deoxy-L-galactitol, and (2R,3S,4R,5S)-hexane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol, is a sugar alcohol derived from the North Atlantic seaweed Fucus vesiculosis.

A 1997 article in the Journal of Biochemistry concerns a kinase enzyme which acts on fucose, which the authors abbreviated as "fuc-K".


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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Fucitol". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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